Welcome

The eChallenges e-2011 Conference takes place in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy, hosted by the Regional Government of Tuscany. This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission and hosted by national governments, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.

eChallenges provides a prestigious, international forum to share success stories and lessons learnt from applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related research at European level (FP6 & FP7) as well as Regional, National and Commercial initiatives. International cooperation and discussion of commercialisation, exploitation & interoperability issues are key aspects of the programme.

The goals of e-2011 are to promote ICT knowledge sharing and innovation between commercial organisations, government agencies and the research community, exhange experiences about the current state of eAdoption at a sectoral, national or regional level and stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs

Registration

All participants should complete registration online prior to the event.

Final Programme

The eChallenges e-2011 Programme is based on a Call for Papers which closed on 28th February 2010.

The Final Programme is published online and incorporates keynote presentations, technical papers, business and government case studies and workshops.

Plenary speakers confirmed include:

- Ms Stella Targetti, Vice President of Regional Government of Tuscany